Eugene Smith lost his mother, wife, and infant son in the mass murder-suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. "My first respo.
Returning to California at age twenty-one, Smith faced the daunting challenge of building from scratch a meaningful and self-sufficient Life in the American society he thought he had left behind.
Repatriated by the US authorities on New Year\'s Eve, he broke a $50 bill stashed in his shoe to buy breakfast for himself and a fellow survivor.
Eugene Smith lost his mother, wife, and infant son in the mass murder-suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978